Shame
G - C - G - C - G - Am (2x)
G C G
1. Well, there’s three
versions of this story,
C G Am
mine
and yours and then the truth,
G C G C
G A
and
we can put it down to circumstance, our childhood, then our youth.
D Em C
Out of some sentimental gain I
wanted you to feel my pain,
G
but
it came back return to sender,
D Em C
I read your mind and tried to
call, my tears could fill the Albert Hall,
D - D7
is
this the sound of sweet surrender ?
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What a shame we never listened,
D G Am
- C
I told you through the television,
D G Am C
and all that went away was the
price we paid,
D Em A7 D
people spend a lifetime this way, oh,
what a shame.
G
C G
C
G Am
2. So I got busy throwing
everybody underneath the bus,
G C G C
G A
and
with your poster 30 foot high at the back of Toys-R-Us.
D Em C
I wrote a letter in my mind,
but the words were so unkind,
G
about
a man I can’t remember,
D Em
C
I don’t recall the reasons
why, I must have meant them at the time,
D - D7
is
this the sound of sweet surrender?
- - - - - - - -
- - - - - G Am - C
What a shame we never listened,
D G Am - C
I told you through the television,
D G Am C
and all that went away was the
price we paid,
D Em A7
people spend a lifetime this way,
Em
A7 D7
and that’s how they stay, oh,
what a shame.
G E
A D7 G
+ Words come easy, when
they’re true. (2x)
G
Am C D G
So I got busy throwing
everybody underneath the bus,
Am C D G
and
with your poster 30 foot high at the back of Toys-R-Us,
Am C D D7
now we
can put it down to circumstance, our childhood, then our youth.
- - - - - - - -
- - - - - G Am - C
What a shame we never listened,
D G Am
- C
I told you through the television,
D G Am C
and all that went away was the
price we paid,
D Em A7 Em A7
people spend a lifetime this way, and
that’s how they stay,
Em A7 D7
people spend a lifetime this way,
oh, what a shame.
G -
C - G C - G - A7
C
G
+ What a shame, o...............h,
such a shame, what a shame.
(orig. = capo 3rd) (Take That,
Robbie Williams and Gary Barlow)